CapX 2020 is now “Grid North Partners.” Do we really need to go through this AGAIN? Contact them at info@gridnorthpartners.com to be added to their mailing list. WHAT ABOUT DISTRIBUTED GENERATION DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND? 2020 CapX2050 Vision Report: CapX2050_TransmissionVisionReport_FINAL.pdf … Continue reading →
From the public meeting materials, here’s what they’re looking at, above. These are significant additions to the transmission grid in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Look at the number of double circuits they want to add, and look at the new transmission … Continue reading →
It’s early, so now’s the time to get agitated, get activated! As if CapX 2020 wasn’t enough, and during the CapX 2020 Certificate of Need proceeding, word of the “JCSP” overlay came out. And we know that Xcel, in its … Continue reading →
The CapX 2020 project has been a part of my life for over 12 years… and now it’s mostly up and running. So I’ve spent the day digging through the dusty files. What a mess. Boxes and boxes and boxes. … Continue reading →
It’s out, the report from U of M Humphrey School of Public Affairs about CapX 2020, headlining it as a “Model for addressing climate change.“ Transmission Planning and CapX 2020: Building Trust to Build Regional Transmission Systems Oh, please, this … Continue reading →
Remember Xcel’s CapX 2020 peak demand projections of 2.49% annual increase? How wrong can they be? And how unjustified was their basis for a Certificate of Need for CapX 2020? And how are they held accountable for those gross misrepresentations? … Continue reading →
When the Applicants added the Myrick route, oh-so-improperly at the very end of a long proceeding when they saw they couldn’t get their way due to DOT easements, it was excruciating. Successfully defeated, but excruciating because it was so wrong, … Continue reading →
This Research Assistant job popped up — wonder who’s paying for this… and what’s the point?
Continue reading →I’ve been saying this for so many years, that electric demand is down, down, down, and instead, Xcel Energy (and all the others) have been saying it’s going UP, UP, UP (even though Mikey Bull said years ago that they … Continue reading →
DOH! This is NOT rocket science. This came out last month, posted on the CapX 2020 site, and around the same time, there was a PR push about the tax payments, “benefits,” that local governments were receiving for the CapX … Continue reading →